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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 6
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Job bemoans his grief—He prays that God will grant his petitions—Those who are afflicted should be pitied—How forcible are right words!
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But</span> Job answered and said,
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Oh that my <sup>a</sup><a href="job/6/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Despair.">grief</a> were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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For the arrows of the Almighty <i>are</i> within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?  or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?  or is there <i>any</i> taste in the white of an egg?
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The things <i>that</i> my soul refused to touch <i>are</i> as my sorrowful meat.
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Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant <i>me</i> the thing that I long for!
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Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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What <i>is</i> my strength, that I should hope?  and what <i>is</i> mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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<i>Is</i> my strength the strength of stones?  or <i>is</i> my flesh of brass?
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<i>Is</i> not my help in me?  and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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To him that is afflicted <sup>a</sup><a href="job/6/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Compassion.">pity</a> <i>should be shewed</i> from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, <i>and</i> as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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Which are blackish by reason of the ice, <i>and</i> wherein the snow is hid:
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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="job/6/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB caravans.">troops</a> of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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For now ye are nothing; ye see <i>my</i> casting down, and are afraid.
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Did I say, <sup>a</sup><a href="job/6/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE gifts.">Bring</a> unto me?  or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand?  or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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How forcible are right words!  but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, <i>which are</i> as wind?
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Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig <i>a</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/6/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 8."><i>pit</i></a> for your friend.
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Now therefore be content, look upon me; for <i>it is</i> evident unto you if I lie.
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Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness <i>is</i> in it.
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Is there iniquity in my tongue?  cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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